Show I IC I Ion I C Confessions on f r Of a Bride BrideI I iI II I II I I Try to Save My Enemy From I Fearful Death Tho curse of ot the pearls has has' come cometo cometo cometo come comeI I to an end You ought to know that I spoke without much purpose purpose I merely wished to keep B Bachs Bach's Bach's Bachs ch's attention attention attention atten atten- tion from the fact tact that I was starting the motor of ot my boat Watch him awhile le and you ll think different the man man answered pointing pointIng point point- Ing a lean brown finger at boat which was headed out to sea Bach held the position a long time And in a away away away trance lII like e a 11 man nan In a 11 way he must have hypnotized me mo For I 1 had a vision of ot Cartels wearing Tiny Goffs Goff's diving dress and going I after the Jewels lIe He could locate the sunken craft with a magnet as I 1 i had seen Jo Bach do some weeks I j since He lie could descend by a rope j I II I his floating motorboat motorboat motor motor- I ladder and fasten boat to the hulk below After finding I the treasure he would have to motor motor-I throw off oft his weighted dress and rise to the top of the sea like lIlee a pearl diver then then swim to the safety of his small boat It wont won't take tak long to get into trouble Said Bach knows all the secrets of ot this business that I know know except except just one But that's the big one By this time lime my engine was hitting hitting hitting hit hit- ting nicely but Bach had been too I much absorbed in his own anger and hate to pay attention to what I 1 was doing Keep your eyes on him I 1 say he went on And VAnd now that its it's toolate too toolate toolate late for help to reach him Ill I'll tell you something In the end of the torpedo case theres there's a bomb that'll blow him to pieces as soon as he touches the diamonds ci I looked up at the man in utter horror I ered the warning he had n me once and I had scorned it and Mary lary Thomas had paid the penalty with her life lite I 1 Iwas Iwas was p paralyzed with amazement and confusion and my state delighted the wretch who watched me I the only secret has I not got he chuckled You fiend I shouted and In th the next moment my little motor boat had jumped away from the shore headed straight for tor the U I knew well enough nough that Bach could not possibly follow me immediately for all the rest of the Lorimer craft were safely padlocked ed for he night Nevertheless I looked back bacle from timeto time timeto to time uneasily Around the corner of the great mansion on the shore came an auto From it leaped a number number num num- ber her of men I recognized a certain large man as my friend the secret service agent The man hunt hail had begun at an early hour I I 1 held my wheel steady while my boat tore at its best speed straight I for for the point for which Hamilton boat was was also headed Again I looked behind me The federal I agents had roused the house All ll of ot the Lorimer men ran clown down to the pier Lob Lab was among them them them-I I could I tell by t tl e way he towered above the crowd Shortly I 1 saw a whole fleet of the Lorimer boats pursuing me And I wondered just what fancy tancy tale Jo Bach had spun for the officers officers officers cers He couldn't possibly invent anything anything anything any any- thing half halt as startling as the truth The scene off oft our bit of coast that I morning morning- was most spectacular My tiny skeeter was leading a race race race- and the stake was the life of ot a man That the man was bad didn't seem Important to me at the time I 1 didn't stop to consider why I 1 wanted to save Hamilton I only knew 1 that below him were the clutching hands of those who had brought the jewels across the Atlantic while beI behind behind be be- hind him was the long arm ann of the I lay law But the law was was was' just just and and the thing thinA which waited him in the depths of the sea was a trap It was not fairplay fair fairplay fairplay play to let even a villain go down to meet such a fate unwarned fate unwarned beat me to our stran strange o rendezvous He had lowered his ladder ladder ladder lad lad- der and had put on most of ot his divers diver's divers diver's divers diver's div div- ers er's costume when I came within hailing distance He was proceeding slowly and del deliberately with his prep prep- Dont Don't go down I 1 called to himas him himas as liS I slowed up near him I am Jane Lorimer I have come to warn you of ot terrible da danger oer To be continued E |